We are a Year 1 class at Nelson Central School, Nelson, New Zealand. Most of us are 5 years old,
except for our teachers, Tracy and Sam, who are a little older. This blog lets you know what we
have been up to and what our next learning steps will be. We love to find out what people
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Sunday, 17 September 2017

Week 8 Term 3

Welcome to our Week 8 blog.

It is great to see children benefitting from support from home. We have seen some super writing this week and also children playing their part in moving us towards waste free lunch boxes through the use of their bees wax wraps.

For our Animal topic we have been looking at birds this week and where able to have a close-up look at a kiwi. This was a first time experience for many of the children and our parents. Our information report this week was about the kiwi.

A kiwi is a bird. Kiwis have big feet. Kiwis cannot fly. Kiwis
have a long beak. Kiwis are soft. By Nieve

Kiwis have nostrils at the tip of their beaks. They can hide
in a deep place like a cave. Caves are dark. Lots of things live in a cave. By Jordan

A kiwi is a bird. A kiwi has wings but it can’t fly. They lay
extremely large eggs. They are the only bird that cannot fly. I like kiwis. By Hazel

Still on the theme of birds we made collage penguins in art. Some of them are still having their final touches added but they will be on display soon.

In maths we continued using our clocks to help us with time problems and........

.........enjoyed looking at baby photos; trying to guess who was who.

In Discovery Time we had our first child led workshop where Jonty took on the role of teacher helping friends to make flowers like the ones he had shared in news time a few weeks ago.

We also saw lots of co-operative learning going on with great examples of the key Competencies:

Managing Self

Relating to Others

Participating and Contributing

If you are near Room 10 durig the week please to pop in to say hello and take a look at your child's work.

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